Forza Horizon 6\u2019s sprawling, impressive map is separated into distinct districts, instantly recognizable as soon as you approach. The suburbs are dotted on the outskirts of Tokyo; narrow, undulating streets with telephone wires sweeping overhead, connecting clusters of modest homes.<\/p>\n
Tokyo also has a docklands district, an industrial space piled high with huge cranes and colossal freighters, and there\u2019s a delightful dichotomy between the looming, brutalist architecture built for tiny, bubbly city cars to zip around in.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also the iconic downtown area, where you\u2019ll see Shibuya Crossing, Ginko Avenue and Tokyo Tower \u2013 breathtaking landmarks bound together by dense urban streets, clever shortcuts and hidden paths, but all designed to support Horizon\u2019s typically fast gameplay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe combination of enormous verticality, glass, neon signs, adverts for all manners of things, with Tokyo we\u2019ve created this ultra-high-density space unlike anything we\u2019ve made before,\u201d Ellert adds. \u201cIt\u2019s the most visually, radically different space we\u2019ve ever built for a Horizon game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Culture<\/p>\n
You won\u2019t end up in Japan alone \u2013 two of your close friends are coming to experience this adventure with you. Jordy is a passionate motorsports enthusiast, while Mei is an experienced Japanese car builder, and it\u2019s her character that adds an insider\u2019s perspective to your journey through Japan. That insider perspective was mirrored in the real world by Playground Games\u2019 Cultural Consultant Kyoko Yamashita.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing that surfaced when our team travelled to Japan was how valuable it is to have someone there who knows the place, who can help you navigate some of the things that even a well-researched tourist might not know,\u201d Ellert explains. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to understand it from your perspective, but that inside perspective is so important when recreating a space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forza Horizon 6\u2019s sprawling, impressive map is separated into distinct districts, instantly recognizable as soon as you approach.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137382,141211,59,144114,3004,86,56,54,55,1174],"class_list":["post-385960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-developer-direct","tag-forza-horizon-6","tag-gb","tag-playground-games","tag-racing","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox-game-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}